Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diego, Calif...
Manhattan Beach, Calif...
...does every week, small businessman Jim Mulder of Lemon Grove, Calif. tucked his paid bills, sales slips and the salary record of his one employe into an envelope and dropped it into a mailbox. The envelope, and all Jim Mulder's bookkeeping worries, went to "Mail-Me-Monday." By last week, some 3,000 small businessmen in 58 U.S. and Canadian cities were doing the same thing...
Winged Victory. In Woodland, Calif., duck hunter Charles Roller found a pelican with a broken wing, started to set it, had to struggle to keep the bird quiet, got his head caught in its 15-inch beak...
Magic Sandwich. Most recent gadget is the "birefringent filter," designed in 1940 by Dr. John W. Evans of Chabot Observatory, Oakland, Calif. It is a multi-decker sandwich of thin quartz plates and sheets of polaroid, which passes only light of a single pure color. Accomplishing the same object as the spectroheliograph, it is much more effective and easier for astronomers to use. When built into a coronagraph, it lets the complexities of the sun's atmosphere be seen in all their terrifying glory...